Designing Cost-Efficient Mechanisms Book

by

Lawrence J. Kamm

Minimum Constraint Design (MinCD) provides zero looseness and zero binding with loose tolerances and low cost. For example, with MinCD, the author's company made very large industrial robots using only small machine tools.

This book is the source of the technology.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Minimum Constraint Design (MinCD),Semi-MinCD, and Redundant Constraint Design (RedCD)

Chapter 1 General Description

Chapter 2 Degrees of Constraint

2.1 Disadvantages and Benefits of RedCD

2.1.1 Disadvantages

2.1.2 Benefits

2.2 Theory of MinCD

2.3 Examples of Bad RedCD

2.4 Examples of Good RedCD

2.5 Examples of MinCD

2.5.1 The Ubiquitous Tripod